This is my S-2 high hood

[blues90]

It is an Atlas S-2 cab and frame and drive and I made the entire hood from scratch .

 

[railfan]

Nice Work. Obviously you are skilled and talented.

Mike

 

[Burlington Bob]

I agree with railfan. What rr will this be painted for?

 

[CSXPAID]

excellent!!!

 

[bnsf971]

If some rivet counter asks, you can tell them it was a repair of wreck damage, or even a re-engine job. It looks good.

 

[Enola Yard Tim]

That's excellent!

 

[kjd]

By definition, wouldn't it be an HH instead of an S? Is there a story behind it? It looks very tight but it seems like a lot of work for a made up thing. I've tried to freelance stuff but it always looks like the photo when I'm done. I guess I'm one of those so disdained "rivit counters" although I have never actually counted rivets.

 

[HOexplorer]

I'm very impressed with this job. I like it! Not being a diesel guy and certainly not a rivet counter, I don't know any differences from any prototypes. I like what I see here though. Jim

 

[cajon]

One big telling difference between an S-2 & HH 600 or 1000 is radiator grille. On the S-2 it's near the front of the long hood & on an HH 600 or 1000 it's near the cab like your model. No matter what you call it, it's still a good looking model!

 

[blues90]

By definition, wouldn't it be an HH instead of an S? Is there a story behind it? It looks very tight but it seems like a lot of work for a made up thing. I've tried to freelance stuff but it always looks like the photo when I'm done. I guess I'm one of those so disdained "rivit counters" although I have never actually counted rivets.

Yes it would be an HH . I assure you that the hood was made from a detailed drawing in HO scale . The only real difference is the trucks and frame and the rear truck is not so far from the rear pilot but I used what I had to come close.

Beside that It was my labor and my time, the hood comes right off just like the Atlas hood does. Made up or not it looked good to me , with paint it would have looked even better. This was back in about 1994 and all that was available at that time was brass and they didn't look or run all that great. I know I installed gear upgrade kits in a few brass model HH's and they still didn't run very well. I'll just leave it at that.

 

[kjd]

It looks really good to me too and I would have liked to see it in paint. I inferred from you calling it a high hood S2 it was protolanced. I'm not too familiar with Alcos except S is a switcher, RS is a road switcher, HH is a high hood and C is Century series so if you had said it was an HH1000 I would have nodded, said nice modeling, and not known anything different.
Finding that balance between good enough and insanity is important. At the same time appreciating the efforts some modelers exert to get extremely accurate models can be both educating and humbling. I am still learning and this year is my 9th year as a professional model builder. I think it looks great.

 

[blues90]

It looks really good to me too and I would have liked to see it in paint. I inferred from you calling it a high hood S2 it was protolanced. I'm not too familiar with Alcos except S is a switcher, RS is a road switcher, HH is a high hood and C is Century series so if you had said it was an HH1000 I would have nodded, said nice modeling, and not known anything different.
Finding that balance between good enough and insanity is important. At the same time appreciating the efforts some modelers exert to get extremely accurate models can be both educating and humbling. I am still learning and this year is my 9th year as a professional model builder. I think it looks great.

I called it a High Hood S-2 because that is what it really is rather than calling it a HH1000 because that would be incorrect or misleading to anyone who knows what the proto type is. In reality the HH stood for a High Hood switcher. The S-1 was built right after in a lower hood version with newer style blunt trucks and if I am correct they lowered the engine in the frame on the S-1 to allow it to fit.

 

[Steve S]

Nice job of modeling. Here's a similar S-2 that was rebuilt for the Manufacturers Railroad in St. Louis. It was designated an S-4m.

http://skipg.homeip.net/gallery/Photos_of_Manufacturers_Railway_Engine_Number_253/MRS_1271

Steve S

 

[kjd]

I called it a High Hood S-2 because that is what it really is rather than calling it a HH1000 because that would be incorrect or misleading to anyone who knows what the proto type is. In reality the HH stood for a High Hood switcher. The S-1 was built right after in a lower hood version with newer style blunt trucks and if I am correct they lowered the engine in the frame on the S-1 to allow it to fit.

That reminds me of a story from a club I was in for a couple years. One of the guys ran a B40-8 into the turntable pit. The only trouble was the turntable pit hadn't been installed yet, just a round hole in the benchwork. To his credit, he volunteered to replace it and showed up a couple weeks later with an SD40. They're the same he said. I guess they both have a 40 in the name but also are different generations, have different builders, axle counts, horsepower, etc. He just claimed nobody would know the difference, I think because he didn't know the difference.

 

[blues90]

That reminds me of a story from a club I was in for a couple years. One of the guys ran a B40-8 into the turntable pit. The only trouble was the turntable pit hadn't been installed yet, just a round hole in the benchwork. To his credit, he volunteered to replace it and showed up a couple weeks later with an SD40. They're the same he said. I guess they both have a 40 in the name but also are different generations, have different builders, axle counts, horsepower, etc. He just claimed nobody would know the difference, I think because he didn't know the difference.

It sort of reminds me of the very first time I got a walthers catalog and as with most of them they have a few model railroad settings with loco's and the layout all finished . My father got me started in this back in the mid 50's and I really didn't know one loco from another and he had mostly steam so I knew the wheel count but not the builder .

So here I am with my walthers catalog decades later and saw a loco I really liked the head loco of a two loco pull so I went off to the local hobby shop and looked around and came home with an Athearn SD9 and later really looking at the photo realized it was not an SD9 so abck to the shop and brought the catalog and it was a Athearn Trainmaster but was told they were out of production. I did eventually locate a few old stock and actually still have them. Point is they looked the same to me .